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Originally Posted by MattyC
But where would our world be without WWII and its aftermath? Would WWII still have happened even if you killed baby Hitler? There were plenty just like him, if not worse.
Arguments can be made that, at least technologically, we'd be much further behind. Perhaps socially as well, as we saw the actual outcome of scapegoating a whole culture, mass genocide, the entire world (mostly) brought together in a common goal, etc..
As horrific as the whole scenario was, WWII forced us ahead in many ways.
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I have a theory, that if you truly want to prevent WW2 and the Holocaust, you have to kill someone like Joseph Joffre and ensure World War 1 ends in the first month. The First World War is responsible for the breakup of a 600 year old empire that kept the Middle East under control, collapsed the monarchy of the largest country on earth and replaced it with the worst totalitarian regime in human history, AND creates the climate for Adolph Hitler and the Nazis to sweep to power.
Russia only goes communist in the first place because Germany is running out of options to win the war. They smuggle Vladimir Lenin into Russia from Switzerland, who is then able to undermine the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. Can you imagine what Russia might have brought to the world if sane people had been left in charge after Nicolas II abdicated?
The world would look vastly different. I don't know if it would be better.